Chapter 263 In the Champions League semi-finals, the Galaxy battleship is coming!

Author: Snow Bird

Chapter 263 In the Champions League semi-finals, the Galaxy battleship is coming!

The five major leagues are coming to an end at this time, but except for the Bundesliga, the championships in other leagues are all suspense.

Manchester City's early win has made them the second team in the five major leagues to win the championship ahead of schedule after Bayern.

Among the remaining three major leagues, the La Liga winning situation is confusing.

Barcelona, ​​who lost the chain in the last game, had a difficult round to reverse the game and defeated Athletic Bilbao in this round, and scored a valuable three-pointer, but they were still 4 points behind Atletico Madrid.

In order to prepare for the Champions League semi-finals, Real Madrid postponed this round of games in advance to May 8. Real Madrid, which played one less game, is currently two points behind Barcelona and temporarily fell to third in the standings.

In Serie A, Juventus beat Bologna 1:0, currently leading the second place by 8 points, and the situation of winning the championship is very good.

The situation in Ligue 1 is similar. After Paris Saint-Germain defeated Ivern, he led the second place by 10 points. He could win three rounds in the next round.

While several giants were still fighting for the championship, Manchester City's four-round winnings immediately attracted a lot of attention from the outside world.

If people had the impression of Manchester City in the past few seasons that they were very rich but had average mercenaries.

So this season, after Manchester City shined in the Champions League, the outside world's evaluation of them has become higher and higher.

He entered the semi-finals of the Champions League and became the only seed of the Premier League.

One of the two domestic cup competitions won the championship and the other reached the final, and the championship was about to be won.

Such a record, let alone in the Premier League, is worthy of praise even in any other league.

What is done is not the traditional Premier League giants, but a football upstart and a team built up with money.

The giants who were originally disdainful of Golden Dollar football because Manchester City was unable to qualify in the group twice in the Champions League, inevitably felt nervous at this time.

Manchester City's great success this season is the huge success of Golden Dollar Football.

This made them worried that if other rich tycoons follow suit and enter the football world with checks like Manchester City, will European football be chaotic by these tycoons?

So, the giants united to put pressure on UEFA to investigate Manchester City's financial situation and see if they violated the UEFA Fiscal Fairness Act, which was just implemented last year.

The best way to restrict the tyrants from waving money in the football world is to formulate rules and limit their investment financially.

And the Fiscal Fairness Act is such a product.

According to UEFA's regulations, teams participating in various UEFA's competitions must balance fiscal revenue and expenditure, and the losses of any team shall not exceed 5 million euros.

According to this regulation, a rich team like Manchester City who has no background but spends money like money must have violated the Financial Fairness Act.

The price of violating the bill is to be paid limits, transfer investments and huge fines.

Obviously, these giants hope to use this method to limit Manchester City's strength, prevent them from continuing to attract stars with high salaries, and even break up their current team lineup.

When the news reached Manchester City, the club was facing a big enemy.

"UEFA is about to send someone to check our financial situation. What is the current financial revenue and expenditure of the club?"

After receiving the news, the club chairman Fahim immediately found the club's finance director and asked him about the situation.

"Our transfer expenses this season are 120 million euros, wage expenses are 290 million euros, and the broadcast revenue sharing is expected to reach 117 million euros. The income from jerseys, tickets, sponsorship fees and other incomes can reach 180 million euros..."

Fashim rubbed his forehead and asked, "That is, we are still about 110 million euros away from UEFA's regulations?"

This number is not a small number. Many teams in the five major leagues cannot reach this number in a season.

"It's like this. Lin's commercial value is very high. There is a market in the Far East. If we can take back part of Lin's portrait rights, we can significantly make up for this gap..."

"Don't mention this kind of thing again in the future. Lin is a player signed by the boss himself. The 100% portrait right is a promise given by the boss. Don't make any ideas about this in the future."

Fashim interrupted the person in charge and said to him with a serious expression.

The club would rather pay a fine than have a disagreement with Lin Quan on this matter.

Offending Lin Quan is almost the same as offending the big boss. There is no need for them to joke about their jobs.

"Yes, Chairman, I understand that in addition to this method, we can also use the rules to do some articles!"

“What rules?”

"UFA's fiscal fairness bill can exempt some youth training expenditures, and we can divide this part of the expenditures into the parent company, which can not only reduce the club's expenses, but also enjoy UEFA's exemption!"

“In addition, this bill just came into effect last year, so UEFA relaxed some additional restrictions.

When the club receives capital injections and can fully cover the deficit, the team's biggest loss between 2013 and 2015 could be 45 million euros!”

Sure enough, professional matters have to be taken over by professionals. The problem that was originally a headache, after hearing the other party’s words, he suddenly felt relieved.

"Well, according to your plans, how much does the club have to be fined at most?"

The difference of 100 million euros is still too big, and it is still too difficult to completely make up for it, so Manchester City is likely to be unable to escape the penalty.

"We have conducted professional calculations and the amount of fines can be controlled within 60 million euros!"

Seeing Fashim still frowning, the person in charge spoke tentatively:

"If we can sign a sponsorship contract with our parent company, this 60 million can be waived!"

Transfer money from left pocket to right pocket?

This is not impossible, but if you sign a new sponsorship contract in the name of your parent company at this critical moment, the intention is too obvious.

This is a total fool to treat UEFA!

"I'll go back to the UAE and talk about it when I meet the big boss!"

United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi.

After listening to Fashim's report, Mansour nodded slightly and began to think.

The Abu Dhabi consortium itself is not convenient for it to come forward in person, but they have many business partners.

Conducting certain interest exchanges in business and then allowing these partners to sign sponsorship contracts with Manchester City can effectively avoid UEFA's investigation and will not give people the feeling of being left-handed and right-handed.

Thinking of this, he picked up the phone and called an acquaintance.

After putting down the phone, Mansour nodded to Fashim and said:

"The problem has been solved. Don't let this news affect the team's preparations after you come back. I will go to the scene to watch the next game against Real Madrid."

After Fashim returned to Manchester, he soon received a new sponsorship call.

After putting down the phone, Fashim sighed: The boss solved the problem of his headache by one phone call.

In terms of ability to take advantage of loopholes, the people under these consortiums are really not vegetarians!

...

4th on the 23rd, Etihad Stadium.

The first leg of the Champions League semi-finals is about to begin.

Although he is the number one favorite to win the Champions League this season, Real Madrid has not underestimated Manchester City as an opponent.

They not only chose to postpone the La Liga league, but also arrived in Manchester three days in advance to prepare for the game.

This level of attention is even more outrageous than the last time Barcelona!

"Real Madrid is coming in full force!"

On Etihad's stadium, when he saw Real Madrid players warming up on the court, Manchester City fans couldn't help but worry.

In terms of the luxury of the lineup, Real Madrid is definitely one of the best on this planet.

Ronaldo, Bale, Benzema, Di Maria, Modric, Xavi Alonso, Ramos, Pepe, Cointran, Casillas and others are all superstars in the football world.

In Real Madrid's lineup, the slightly less famous one is probably the European golden boy Isco, but his current value has reached 45 million euros!

What is star-studded?

Just look at the Real Madrid team on the field!

The combined value of the 11 starting players of Real Madrid is more than 600 million euros, and it is definitely the first in football!

It is said that Manchester City is a rich man and spends money like money in the transfer market, but in fact, Real Madrid's transfer investment last season is even more exaggerated than Manchester City!

Real Madrid spent 100 million pounds to buy Bale alone. Of course, the book is the transfer fee added by Bale and other players.

But no one is a fool. It can be seen that the other players are all added by Tottenham. Those players are definitely not worth millions or tens of millions. Their existence is just to help Bale share some transfer fees.

In addition to Bale, Isco, Ilia Lamendi, Karjava and other three also spent more than 70 million euros on Real Madrid.

In summary, their transfer has exceeded 190 million euros, one third higher than Manchester City!

However, when Real Madrid bought people, they also sold a lot of transfers, including Ozil, Higuain, Albiol, Karejon and others, which brought them about 120 million euros in transfer income.

By this calculation, Real Madrid's net investment is not very high, only 70 million euros.

With Real Madrid's strong business development and operation capabilities, it is not difficult to fill the gap in transfer expenses.

Therefore, they will not be subject to too much restrictions by UEFA's fiscal fairness bill!

This is very different from Manchester City, which means that Real Madrid can continue to strengthen the team after this summer's World Cup!

The opponent's strength is so strong that Manchester City fans are very nervous.
To be continued...